The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Frank Nicotero, the warm-up guy for America’s Got Talent who got into it last year with a contestant auditioning with his signature bit, got to show his original version this past summer — well, almost — on Last Comic Standing. It was a digital extra for a while. Now, on …
James Corden is taking over The Late Late Show in March 2015, but we haven’t really seen much of him on American TV, much less CBS, until now. Corden makes his first sit-down with Late Show with David Letterman tonight, and Letterman has a decade of experience hosting a talk …
Fahim Anwar is not Korean but he lives in Koreatown in Los Angeles, which is unsettling, but mostly because of the thin nature of his apartment walls. What’s going on on the other side of that wall? Anwar joked about that and more on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. …
Every new “correspondent” on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart gets to break in a new suit as Stewart breaks him or her into the show. Well, not every new comedian. Hasan Minhaj made his debut on Comedy Central’s news satire program Wednesday night in a T-shirt, not delivering the …
Last night’s episode of Key & Peele featured a dark satirical sketch that opened with the words: “Everything you are about to see is true.” It then takes us back to the 1987 “Jazz Fit Champonship” where the two finalists, Flash and Lightning, receive some life-and-death information during their already …
Jim Gaffigan was a late addition to Wednesday night’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, but Gaffigan had plenty of jokes at the ready. It always helps to sleep with your writing partner. It’s his wife. Don’t worry. Gaffigan will explain it to you, and also let you know that there’s …
Forrest Shaw has grown “taco tits” since moving from Miami to Los Angeles, thanks to all of the food trucks. No thanks to organic food, which is too expensive. As he notes: “Why does organic food cost more? Don’t they do nothing to it?” And yet, as he explains on his …
Anyone dismayed thinking Saturday Night Live replaced the wrong person at the Weekend Update desk this season will rejoice at this news: The White House Correspondents’ Association announced today that Cecily Strong will deliver the featured address at their 2015 dinner. “Her political humor is sly and edgy, and it …
Kathy Griffin may have been the only choice to replace the late Joan Rivers as host of E!’s Fashion Police, but reportedly it’s now a done deal. TMZ reported Tuesday that E! and Melissa Rivers had reached an agreement with Griffin to take over as host when Fashion Police returns …
Netflix announced overnight that a planned Nov. 28 day-after-Thanksgiving launch of Bill Cosby’s latest stand-up special, Bill Cosby 77, would not air. “At this time we are postponing the launch of the new stand-up comedy special Bill Cosby 77,” said the brief statement. It comes after two more women, including former …
